![]() ![]() Dallas is the former Denver bureau chief for Business Week magazine and lives in Denver, Colorado. Mattie is a woman of extraordinary virtues - she is decent, educated, kind and capable, and she accepts her bridegroom’s choices and the old-fashioned concept of helpmate. ![]() ![]() This novel is told in the form of her diary entries – a writing style I have a particular fondness for - as with epistolary novels. Mattie finds solace in her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. We read of their hardships - Indian attacks, isolation, no plumbing or electricity not to mention, no doctors or medicine. They settle in this new frontier, which is so isolated and bleak that it drove many women, and a few men, to madness. Newly weds Mattie and Luke are traveling in a covered wagon to build a home in the Colorado Territory. The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas ![]()
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